Great Peninsula Conservancy has completed its most ambitious planting season yet, with staff, volunteers, and partners ...

Gwen Bartonek is endlessly fascinated by hummingbirds. She loves observing their territorial behavior. “They wait and they look at their territory all day and as soon as somebody else comes, they dive ...

Parking strips next to sidewalks planted with nothing but grass are like wide roads intended solely for cars: They serve a purpose, but they hurt the planet and could be doing much more to make our ...

A cluster of home gardeners walked into a wild meadow on Mount Ashland in early July, following in the footsteps of native plant expert Suzie Savoie. Their goal: Low-maintenance landscape inspiration.

A few miles south of Salem, the Elderberry Wisdom Farm uses generations of traditional knowledge to grow native plants, restore habitats and train Indigenous adults and other underrepresented students ...

Events are free unless noted. Please email calendar submissions at least three weeks in advance to events@oregonian.com. ONGOING Spring Native Plant Sale: Order through March 30 from a selection of ...

The official start of spring is March 20, although longtime Oregon gardeners know the real start of the season comes March 22 ...

In the garden In her book “Plant This, Not That,” Elise Howard offers more than 200 substitution ideas for invasive plants.

PORTLAND, Ore. — In late spring, a tree-lined clearing in the Johnson Creek Watershed of Southeast Portland blooms with small white flowers atop leafy green stalks. Despite looking right at home, ...